@helsenjana.bsky.social never ceases to amaze me. I'm continually in awe of how smart, creative, and thoughtful she is as a scientist. Anyone would be incredibly lucky to join her lab or collaborate with her!

Jana Helsen@helsenjana.bsky.social · 3w ago

I am starting my lab at the University of Geneva next January! Incredibly excited to soon be joining the MOCEL department as an Asst. Professor. The lab will use evolutionary cell biology to study chromosomes, centromeres & speciation 🧬🔬🌱 Intrigued, want to join or collaborate? 🔗 helsenlab.org

@embl.org at its best: collaborative, open, transformative, and just the right amount of crazy. Dreaming of mechanistic cell biology *in the natural environment*? Dream no more, rent the AML. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.youtube.com/watch?v=jepb... #WeFreezeOnTheBeach #ProtistsOnSky 🦠🌍🧪

An Advanced Mobile Laboratory to enable field-based microbial ecology and cell biology across scales https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.23.707475v1

This piece emerged from the EMBO Integrating Cell & Planetary Scales workshop, bringing together an exceptional group of ECRs. I feel fortunate to have met such a kind, motivated community, & privileged to contribute to this shared vision for cell biology in a changing world. doi.org/10.1242/jcs....

Cell biology for a sustainable future – a call to action from early-career scientists

ABSTRACT. As a community of early-career researchers in cell biology, biochemistry and public health, we stand at a pivotal moment regarding both our careers and the fate of our planet. The climate cr...

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How do new centromeres evolve while staying compatible with the division machinery? Discover it in our new Nature paper! We show centromeres transition gradually via a mix of drift, selection, and sex, reaching new states that still work with the kinetochore. 👉 doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09779-1

Curious about how this story came to be (we never planned to study centromeres!)? Here’s a glimpse behind the scenes of how a naive method to count chromosomes unlocked the rules behind centromere evolution. P.S. There are cartoons! 👉 tinyurl.com/4rz4ve6u

Counting Chromosomes: The Simple Idea That Unlocked the Rules Behind Centromere Evolution

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Just uploaded our new preprint to @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social Multinucleate life really is everywhere...from deep sea forams to slime molds, intracellular parasites, and beyond. 🚀 We explore how scaling, ecology, & evolution intersect when many nuclei share a single cytoplasm. doi.org/10.32942/X2M...

Gautam Dey@gautamdey.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Our attempt to give multinucleate cells the spotlight they deserve (seriously, they’re everywhere), led by the fearless @mrosjac.bsky.social and with @Markus Ganter doi.org/10.32942/X2M... We’d love your feedback while this goes through the peer review process! #MicroEvoSky #ProtistsonSky 🧪🌏

Want to acquire #ExM images like this and help us understand the true extent of cytoskeletal diversity across the tree of life? This position might be for you! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... With @dudinlab.bsky.social @embl.org @biology-unige.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social